Michael Giberson As Lynne noted a few days back, we share a love for soccer. In addition to Man City, she roots for her home team, the Chicago Fire. I have the honor of being a fan of my own home team, DC United. As the MLS season starts this weekend, it is a natural …
Lynne Kiesling While we’re on the subject, I was fishing around about soccer and found the EPL Talk blog, where there’s a neat post about musicians who are mad about soccer. A disproportionate share of those listed are Manchester City fans (as am I), including: Johnny Marr (Manchester City). The former guitarist of The Smiths …
Lynne Kiesling I don’t share Mike’s interest in basketball, so the NCAA tournament frenzy doesn’t do a whole lot for me. However, he and I both love soccer, and I’ve commented on the upcoming Beckham infestation of SoCal here and here. Today’s Wall Street Journal has an article that discusses the MLS growth strategy to …
Michael Giberson Coyote Blog asks, “Where is Cinderella?” The first two rounds of the NCAA basketball championship have been played (round three is underway as I type), and nowhere to be seen is a surprise team like last year’s George Mason University. The best answer I have seen is that of Phil Sheridan, in The …
Lynne Kiesling While we’re in the “how cool is this?” department, pro cycling team CSC has announced that we’ll be able to track all of their riders on the upcoming Tour de California using GSM cellular technology and Google Earth: During this year’s edition of the pro cycling race, the Computer Sciences Corporation, or CSC, …
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Lynne Kiesling As a Liverpool FC fan (or, more accurately, a Xabi Alonso fan), I have been watching the impending sale of the team with great interest. The back-and-forth over the holidays between the current owners and the Dubai investment club that had an offer on the table, and the interjection of the interest of …
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Lynne Kiesling He is going to the LA Galaxy, just like I said yesterday. I knew it!
Lynne Kiesling BBC Sport reports that David Beckham will not renew his contract at Real Madrid. What probability do you assign to his playing in the MLS next season? I assign a very high probability. Several European stars have ended their careers in the MLS (I think of it as a combination of level of …
Michael Giberson A game for fans is finding new fans for the game of football. A Washington Post story reports that the realism packed into EA Sports’ Madden NFL games has helped recruit a new wave of fans. I was going to make some observation about unintended consequences, but the article beat me to it: …
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Lynne Kiesling Here’s one for the “markets in everything” file: you can buy a contract at TradeSports with your prediction of Lance Armstrong’s NY Marathon time. Lance’s time, his training, etc. have been a topic of much discussion in some of the online places I frequent. Now all of us chatterati can put our money …
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